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What kind of humping has it had? 

Shit buzz man. Hope this hasn't dampened the spirits

these lads got a Key West from the scrappy and took it pretty much straight for an MOT.

I imagine the story was similar with mine except I got my cheeks parted on eBay after the MOT instead of before.

Sad looking rear axle but cool car 

@Ghosty, get a big ISIS flag for your window. If you were a curtain twitching 60yr old would YOU have the guts to confront someone who's been radicalised? 

Go one further and swap out all the Hondas for a Hilux pickup and start welding metal sheets to it

In future could you guys please tell me cars are shit BEFORE I buy them? 

I mean, I'll still buy them but it won't be a journey of discovery every time

On 11/10/2023 at 15:43, Flat4 said:

 

I think you'll be handsomely better off through the insurance. A working outback is £1k+ to replace, I'd be surprised if that's not an instant write off over the phone.

I had a gander underneath and it's positive.

I believe neither torsion bar is fucked. I've inspected both, hit them both with a hammer etc. 

I compared tolerances and gaps across everything on the rear of the car by hand/eye. Nothing is noticeably different. 

I did notice that pre inspection there was a 2.5 finger gap between arch and tyre at the driver's side. Up from 1 when I checked mid drive yesterday. This means something is tired but returning slowly. Neither shock looked fucked and neither was damp/wet/explodey. 

After taking it off the stands it the suspension was almost equal on both sides. After sitting on the boot lid and applying/releasing pressure it was mostly equal. 

The conclusion: I'm a fat cunt and something is possibly tired but not fucked. 

The misery continues.

Difficult to see but it's sitting several inches lower on the driver's side rear. 

People have suggested it's a snapped torsion bar. 

Balls.

£176 for an off-peak return train ticket to London leaving at 4:30am. 

Took me an hour to get to the station including a 30min walk through Glasgow. No trivial feat at 3:30am with all the pissheads and junkies.

The woman checking the tickets sends me and a Chinese student away for having off-peak tickets 10mins before the train is due to set off. I have to bring up the website on my phone and argue with her that Friday is not peak. She refuses to budge. I even have a seat reservation for this very train...

I have to force her to read her company page which she reads incorrectly and says "no, you'll need to wait for the next train". Her colleague radios in and says we're good to go 3mins before departure. What a donkey. No sign of the Chinese guy who is probably waiting for the 5:33am "off-peak" train.

If your job for the day is checking tickets, make sure you know how to check tickets. 

The pedals are tiny but it's not horrific. I don't have to be especially careful and I think these boots are 13s. 

Just took it for an 8 mile round trip to the shops and I'm absolutely in love. It's fucking brilliant. I'm not sure what it is but I've not been this excited about a car in a long time.

Loads of character. It eats shit roads, potholes and camber for breakfast. 

Takes real concentration to maintain speed on the corner before a motorway slip road. If you fuck it up then you're joining the slow lane at 45mph. 

The steering is so bizarrely heavy and you're so much smaller than everything else on the road. I'm shocked at how much of a departure it is from the 205. 

I had a gander at the fusebox because Peugeot barely bothered hiding it and there are like 8 fuses total. No rev counter. Exposed metal on the doors. Windscreen wipers are on or off. Nothing in-between. The interior bonnet latch looks like I installed it. 

It's a happy ending with this one. Picked it back up after leaving it with a grown up and it's totally transformed.

• New wheel bearing
• OSF brake line
• both front calipers
• both rear wheel cylinders
• new NS handbrake cable
• all fully adjusted and bled-up
• oil change
• welded-up at OSF
• rusty bits treated with Vactan, quick blast over with lanolin rustproofing etc
• wheel alignment

Incredibly slow. Handling is bizarre after driving a 205. Sunroof was a bad idea for whoever specced it. Pedals are for children's feet.

BUT....

it rides really well. It will drive for miles just on a whiff of diesel. It fits big lads ™. It works.

Very hard to argue with 70+mpg, £300 insurance, LEZ compliance, mechanically simple, marginally interesting. 

Looks like I was more tired than I originally thought. Posted my update in the wrong thread. Top notch 

Well fucking well. Look who's back.

Just picked this back up after leaving it with a grown up and it's fucking transformed.

New wheel bearing, OSF brake line, both front calipers, both rear wheel cylinders, new NS handbrake cable, all fully adjusted and bled-up.

Oil change, welded-up at OSF, rusty bits treated with Vactan, quick blast over with lanolin rustproofing etc. Wheel alignment.

Set off at 7.30pm, tired, and spent 15mins turning the Inca over but not starting it because I fucked up the start sequence. Loaded up the tiniest flask in the world with espresso.

She's as lovely as I remember. 

This one's probably fairly easy and can be done with a few seconds of googling but it had me stumped

58 minutes ago, MiniMinorMk3 said:

I'm only seeing 'Hung Stan' 

1 hour ago, ruffgeezer said:

 

This looks photoshopped. 

I suspect you're in Keighley and buying from a dealer but are too ashamed to tell us and have gone for a glamorous London collection cover story instead.

This means it's a petrol Mazda 626 in white.

Good lord I hope it's a Fabia saloon in SDI flavour. Bon chance @AnnoyingPentium

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/195994227723

SUPER RARE unless you're @Schaefft and have several. Pretty sure this has been on the eBay thread a few times

https://www.gumtree.com/p/for-sale/mobility-scooter-cabin-car/1465976683

That's not far off the price of a new Ami 

2009 Merc C180

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/186086684814

42 minutes ago, dome said:

Why, are you selling one😘

Did I pass you on the M74 southbound this morning? If not I waved at some guy in a green LS400.

I was in the Kangoo as it's the only thing I own that works 🙈

M73 and M80 only for me today. Looks like you waved at a stranger, can this week get any worse?!

I only sell scrap cars mate. For a shitty beater car you'd need to increase your budget 

Gutted to hear @dome. Sounds like you're due some good karma before Christmas. 

I was gonna suggest having a disgusting, shitty beater car as a backup but you've already got several nice ones.

Top off poo if you're a true connoisseur